Customer Reviews

Bell GelTech Ultimate Comfort Bicycle Seat

5 star:		(8)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(5)
1 star:		(7)

 

 

One of the metal springs broke in my bicycle seat so I bought the Bell GelTech as a replacement. I wasn't impressed.
* It's a very wide seat and quite short front to back. This apparently is the design for a larger, ahem, bottom. I'm an average sized guy and mine didn't fit very well.
* The seat feels great when you push your fingers in it. The gel feels nice and squishy. But...when you sit on it the comfort evaporates. After riding 6 miles on this seat it felt like I was sitting on a concrete slab with a little padding on it. I didn't think it was comfortable at all.
* Turn the seat over and you can see what looks like two large springs, one on each side. This would be great to cushion bumps. Unfortunately, they just "look" like springs. They're rubber disks and, yes, they do compress over bumps but they're nothing at all like springs. And you can really feel the bumps.
* Finally, the seat looks like it belongs on a circus bicycle. It's garish and ugly and people will point at you and laugh. Well, that may be a bit harsh. I was willing to live with the ugly looks if it worked. But it didn't.
I ended up buying a simple Schwinn "memory foam" model for about $17. It was the only Schwinn model my local store had. My guess is any of the Schwinn models would have been fine. The one I bought doesn't have springs either but it is much more comfortable than the Bell GelTech. And people have stopped laughing and pointing.

I bought two of these for a tandem bike. There were comfortable enough. But after a couple months the gel pads on one of the seats split open at one of the seams. Within a couple more months both pads on both seats peeled open.

The gooey gel is exposed and now I can't ride the bike at all until I replace these worthless seats. Big waste of money.

Attached this seat to a Home exercycle. We give it light to moderate use. Within 2 months one gel capsule sprung a tear, which widened and began to spill gel out on the floor. I thought this was just an unlucky anomaly, until at four months the other gel pad opened at the rear seam, widened to a 3 inch gap, and also began spilling the sticky gel onto the floor. We are not heavyweight people! The gel pad system on this Ultimate comfort seat is faulty.

I'm very tiny, and this bike seat feels terrific to me. I find it to be very squishy and forgiving over the bumps--I noticed the most difference from my old standard-issue bike seat riding over train tracks. I do have a tendency to slide forward, and if you do, it's not as comfortable, but if you can sit back on the widest part of the seat, it's great.

4/5 stars because, actually, the little gel pads peeled off the seat. They still stay stuck most of the time, but I have gotten off my bike with a gel pad stuck to my pants...

the seat is not as comfortable as I thought it would be as it has no springs under it only rubber blocks. did arrive fast

When I first saw this bicycle seat on Amazon.com, I thought it was wider than the normal seats. But it wasn't. So I thought it would be useless. I was wrong. The pads on the seat keep it from riding up my cr*ck. I have had several operations and have painful scar tissue in my rear. (Sorry for any graphics. More mature people will understand this.) But this seat helps to keep the pain away. I like the extra padding and use the seat on my stationary bike. My tail bones are no longer painful for days after exercising. I recommend this seat to all who suffer as I do and to any who are starting to use a bike after not being on one for a few years.

For the money, this bike seat is terrific. It makes my rides much more enjoyable and I would recommend this product to anyone.

I'm fairly large and bought this seat to get some added comfort. The seat seems to be good quality and overall I like it. I was expecting it to somewhat more padded and comfortable than it actually is.

When I first used this seat, I was not comfortable because most of the support is on the two protruding gel pads. Other bicycle seats allow a larger contact area which reduces the seat pressure. However, I got used to this and it now feels fine to me.

Later, I started to have pain between my crotch so I tried to switch to a horn-less seat which did not work well for me. I ended switching back to this seat but I angled the horn downward. This reduces the pressure on my crotch and since the protruding gel pads have a round surface, I felt very little different to my hipbones except the pain to my crotch is gone.

I like the fact that the gel and the support springs under the seat absorbs the road shocks. This is one of the few bicycle seats that I found that minimizes discomfort to both my hipbones and crotch area. However, I had to point the horn downward at about 10 to 15 degrees to make this work.

Other seats can only solve one problem. My recommendation is to make sure the adjustments are just right before giving up. There is a fore/aft position adjustment, height adjustment and angle adjustment. All three adjustments can make a difference in your comfort.

after about 8 months or so the gel began to lift from the seat. It was very sticky so I just peeled the rest and was left with just the seat. im now shopping for a more comfortable seat.